Despair at depleted Cork hospital funds, and glowing praise for CBC choir
THE monthly meeting of the Cork Workers and Hospitals Committee was held at the Commercial Buildings, South Mall, with George Nason in the Chair, the Echo reported 100 years ago today, on Saturday, September 15, 1923.
Chairman Nason said it was his painful duty to announce that the money at their disposal was only £26 16s. 2d.
Secretary Duncan said he had received £3 from an anonymous donor from London. It was to be divided as follows: 10s. to Mr. Duggan for the Cancer Hospital in Dublin, 15s. to the Middlesex Hospital, and £1 15s to the Committee’s funds.
Dr Blake wrote to the Committee enclosing £2 from Cashman & Co for funds. Mr Cody said Dr. Blake had recently been appointed to the intern staff of the Mercy Hospital. When he was a house surgeon there he was idolised by the poor and was to be heartily congratulated on his appointment (hear! hear!)
Coroner Rice has conducted an inquest into the death of William O’Connell, aged 46, an employee of the Castlelyons Co-Operative Society.
Deceased was caught in the shafting of a pulley and died of heart failure on the 10th, consequent on injuries received to the spinal column.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death and recommended that an instrument be devised for putting belts on the pulleys when they are in motion.
Timothy Collins, a native of Freemount, was found dead in a field near Newtownshandrum early yesterday morning. Death was apparently due to natural causes.
Christian Brothers College Choir is trained by Joseph Curtis and was examined recently in 3-part singing by the Intermediate Inspector of Music. It received 394 marks out of 400.
Edward Kiely has accepted a Great Southern & Western Railway clerkship. Richard McCarthy has received first place in Ireland at junior grade in Irish, English and Latin.
The overall Junior Pass rate in Ireland is 64%, and at C.B.C. it is 86%.
Dear Sir - May I take the earliest opportunity of acknowledging with gratitude the many kind letters and wires of sympathy sent me as a result of the burning of my hosiery factory in Kanturk.
I hope before very long to have a new building erected and to have the industry in full swing again.
I would also like to thank the many helpers who did all that was possible on the night of the burning to save the factory and adjacent buildings.
- Yours, P.J. Sheehan.
About 1,500 spectators attended at the Cobh Ramblers grounds when the home team met Fordsons XI in the first round of the Munster Senior League.
A fine game resulted in a scoreless draw.
Two electric tramcars heavily laden with racegoers collided in Melbourne, Australia. Thirty people were injured, including Spargo, the Australian featherweight boxing champion.
Personally, I don’t believe there is any great danger of the world coming to an end soon.
There are, of course, people who in desperation have yearned for it as the only way to bring certain public bodies to an end. But I have hopes that a Judgement Day other than the general one will accomplish this.
There are others who look forward to it in the hope of getting even with ‘friends’, landladies, etc, who acquired certain sums of their money and show no signs of disgorging it.
I regard the man who parts with money in any way which he subsequently regrets as outside sympathy and law. As in the world of Nature, so long as human hawks are tolerated, so long must there be birds to pluck.
Don’t blame the hawks. If you don’t love them, keep away from their nests and haunts.
It is not that men and women are hawk-like bent. Oh, dear no! But on that day when plucking on the modern scale will no longer be possible, this world will have lost its use for most people and the minority will with the greatest human interest, yearn for its speedy abolition.
Jack Dempsey retained his world heavyweight champion title at the New York Polo Grounds yesterday evening. He knocked out his Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo, after 57 seconds of the second round.
Dempsey sent his opponent to the boards no less than five times before polishing him off.
